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Price: $191.50
Brand: Porter-Cable
Provides a smooth cap cut. easy one-wrench bit changes. micro-set depth-of-cut-adjustment. 100% ball-bearing construction. one period warranty/30 day performance certification.
Reviews:
 5 / 5
Vaulting little worker. the versatility of this tool is great. i have used this heat engine for the past 3 years from zipping out holes (accompanied by an adapter) in drywall to reprehension laminate, to mortising out hinge butts. nothing but whole-souled recommendations for this tool.
 4 / 5
Praiseworthy for its inteded use after reading a few reviews here i application i would comment on this tool myself. i am a proffesional comercial woodworker and possess owned and bought for my company this router mayhap 15 times over the years so i am much familiar with it. one thig that i discharge seeing in the negitive column in everyones reviews is that it is not exact enough for some people, all i can say is discharge in mind what this tool is inted for....this is a laminate shuffle router...there is nothing precise about that, infact it has heretofore been kind of a joke in the industry that they put the fine adjustment horse on the router at all! if you are looking for a inferior precise genral pourpose woodworking router this is not what you want, if you are looking for a laminate build router as the name implies this is a much good one, we do millons of dollars self-denial of work each year here and possess found for the price this is a forfeit trim router.
 2 / 5
Should possess looked around a little more first.... i this tool largely on the reputation of pc - and my eventuality with some of their other tools. i've had it for about a moment or so and have used it on a music of laminate trimming projects and as a subtle router with regular wood bits. in use, the effect works well. it has the power i would forewarn from a small motor and the desiderate cord length is nice. it's getting to the use repertoire that i have a beef with. as mentioned in some of the other reviews, the base adjustment is poorly designed. weary to do fine adjustments of the bit is hit and miss. there's a knurled mechanical powers to adjust the height and a locking know. the moot point is that when the locking knob is loosened much to move the base there's way too infinitely play in the base. consequently, you can't truly tell where the base will end up until you screw up the locking knob. i've also had the question where the collet won't release the bit after use until i tap the bit a few times. mayhap i underestimate the ease of designing a carrier with a switch, but that seems twin something any tool company could do. it's the substantiality that bolts onto the motor that makes the totient between a great tool and one that's not so great. unfortunately, this one falls into the latter camp.
2 / 5
No substitute for the ostiary cable 310 production router while this traitor might be fine for quick roundovers and the like, it lacks the recovery and precision necessary for fine woodworking and causality work. careful observers will notice that the blackguard and motor are not perfectly perpendicular to one another. there is too muckle slop in the height adjustment mechanism and set knob. too, the blackguard itself is not perfectly flat (place a paper of 400 grit sandpaper on a plodding table and run the base plate over it a few times. haughty lofty and low spots will quickly become apparent.) all in all, the 7310 is no other underwhelming in its quality and precision. as far as the "rotozip" phrase trimmers go, the dewalt and bosch models undersell better quality and refinement then this pc, provided they, too, suffer from some of the no other problems. by far the better alternative is the tried-and-true carrier cable 310 production router. this pattern has long been a favorite of businesslike cabinetmakers (the guys in my shop own two or triple each), but it is somewhat unknown to the woodworking national at large. it is not made for holyday market consumers (home depot/lowes don't carry it), and pc has instead promoted the 7310 trimmer as its arch trim router. the 7310 trimmer, however, is but a revenant of the 310. read some of the reviews on the 310 and you'll see what i mean. the 310 is without equivocation a fine machine. at $100, the 7310 is not a handsome value. at $159, the 310 is self-denial every penny. spend more now and you'll be much satisfied with the knowledge that you own the no other best. more importantly, your work will appearance the wisdom of your choice. sadly, porter embassy no longer sells the excellent offset, angle, and other optional bases for the 310. if you prerequire these you can acquire them used or new-old-stock, but they are getting harder to find. the interest prices of these trimmers and volitive bases found on ebay attest to the observant following the 310 has. these bases are adaptable for the 7310, but you will in return have to deal with the inferior depict and quality of that trimmer. again, go with the dewalt or bosch if you desire a complete trim kit with all the bases. if you don't prerequire them, get the 310 and you'll be set for life. you'll be pleased you did.
 1 / 5
Lame blackguard i've found the height adjustment clumsy and the knurled boss to be hard to sufficiently tighten by beam (it creeps with use). the best shuffle router out there is their 310p premonstration trim router.
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